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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."
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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Punk
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
Fight
"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
Holly
"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
Jazz
"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
People
"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
Home
"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
Tax
"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
Time
"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
Music
"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
Tax
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